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Hobbledehoy

noun

(Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy, hobdehoy)

An awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy.

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"Hobbledehoy" Quotes from Famous Books

... sound of my voice, which had changed from the boy's soprano into a deep bass—much deeper than it is now. It was the hoarse croak of the hobbledehoy. ...

— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick

... it, don't he? It did make him so savage when he heard, and he said he wasn't half such a hobbledehoy as old Reb was, and Dicksee ...

— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn

... conspicuous among them Hinoe Pomare, the big hobbledehoy son of Prince Hinoe, and, next to his father, heir to the throne. With him was his sister, Tetuanui, who was departing for Raratonga, and her husband. He was a brother of Cowan, the prize-fighter, and in their honor was the luncheon. ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... never lost her temper with this hobbledehoy cousin. Marty could be coaxed, if not driven. After breakfast she urged him out to the shed, and they overhauled the conglomeration of rusted and decrepit hand tools, which had been gathered by Uncle Jason during forty years ...

— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... Becks' most frequent visitors out there was postmaster Forstberg's family, which included, besides the parents, a hobbledehoy son and their daughter Marie, a fair-haired girl some eighteen years of age, of quiet manners, and with an uncommonly clever face. Nobody said that she was pretty, but nearly every one who knew her had the impression that she was; and there was ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

Words linked to "Hobbledehoy" : young person, spring chicken, younker, youth